Dear Robocuppers,
Next game day of the RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season will be on on Jan 23 starting at 3pm (CET). Games will be streaming on Twitch Field A in the following order:
1
Bit-Bots vs NUbots
3:00 pm CET
2
Starkit vs UTRA
3:30 pm CET
3
MRL-HSL vs ITAndroids
4:00 pm CET
4
CIT Brains vs 01. RFC Berlin
4:30 pm CET
Have a look at the website for more information about the games, including previous games, scores, and so on.
https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022/humanoid-league-virtual-season-2021-…
For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy
Best regards,
Alessandra
Dr. Alessandra Rossi
Assistant Professor
PRISCA research lab
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Hi,
The RoboCup 2022 LOC asked all teams who are planning to participate in
RoboCup 2022 to answer the following survey to investigate the possible
challenges and requirements of event participants. *Teams should complete
the survey online by January 31, 2022*.
https://forms.gle/Y2d2xH34fTuZUAQe7
** For teams located in countries without access to Google Forms, please
complete the below plain text survey or the attached excel file and email
it to April <april.robocup(a)gmail.com> *by January 29, 2022*.**
Best Regards,
Marco
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Participation Survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand
Dear All,
We would hereby invite you to complete the participation survey for RoboCup
2022, Bangkok, Thailand. This survey aims to explore the possible
challenges and requirements of participants in the event, which will be
held in 11-17 July 2022 at Bangkok, Thailand.
According to the covid-19 pandemic situation, Thailand is gearing up for a
return to normalcy by easing some travel restrictions and quarantine
requirements and allowing normal tourists to enter the country. In
addition, the government has now introduced sandbox programs allowing fully
vaccinated travelers from 63 low-risk countries to enter the country
without quarantine. For more specific information on situation and arrival
requirements, please kindly visit our website on https://2022.robocup.org/.
We appreciate the time you have taken to complete the participation survey
for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. We are hoping and looking forward to
seeing you at the event.
RoboCup 2022 Organizing Team
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* Required
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*Section 1: Team Information*
Please fill out the form below for each of your teams.
*(1) Team Name*: *
*(2) Name of Team Representative*:*
*(3) Lastname of Team Representative *: *
*(4) Contact E-mail *: *
*(5) Country *: *
*(6) Team's Institution *: *
*(7) The league that the team will complete in (Please fill out one survey
for every league your team will complete in) *: *
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*Section 2: RoboCup Participation*
*(1) Have your team ever attended a RoboCup event? (YES/NO) *:*
*(2) We know that the world situation can change quickly. But based on your
current knowledge of the situation and future perspectives in Thailand, in
your country, and your team. Do you currently plan to attend RoboCup 2022
in July, Bangkok, Thailand? (YES/ Maybe/ NO)*: *
*(3) If your answer was NO or Maybe in the last question, could you please
explain what led you to choose such an answer?:*
*(4) For teams intending to participate in RoboCup 2022 in Thailand, how do
you rate the likelihood that your team will be able to actually. (More
likely/ Neutral/ Less likely):*
*(5) What reasons might prevent you from actually traveling to RoboCup
2022? (Pandemic situation, Home country situation, Thailand situation,
Traveling conditions, etc.) You can answer more than one): *
*(6) If you travel to Thailand, how many people on the team are expected
traveling to Thailand? *:*
*(7) If you end up not being able to travel to Thailand, would your team be
interested in participating in a virtual event of some sort? (YES/NO):*
*(8) Please explain your answer for the last question:*
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*Section 3: What is your concern about participating in the event?*
*(1) Covid-19 Pandemic:*
*(2) Technical:*
*(3) Visa Issue:*
*(4) Others:*
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We appreciate the time you have taken to complete the participation survey
for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. We are hoping and looking forward to
seeing you at the event. For more information, please visit our website on “
https://2022.robocup.org/”
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Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO -
http://www.acso.uneb.br
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE
Hi,
We have been working in the last years on a project in our lab named
"Learning Setplays from Demonstration." The main goal of this project is to
provide evidence that we can catch human's intuitive knowledge in a domain
and use it to feed a massive dataset for robots to learn how to cooperate
to solve problems in this domain.
At this time, we are gathering contributions worldwide to populate the
dataset. So we ask your contribution in the following way:
1- Watch some robot soccer games
2- Locate situations where you think you can demonstrate a setplay for a
team to perform better in that situation
3-Create your demonstration
4- Send us several demonstrations
To turn it easier for you, we have developed the BahiaRT's Learning
Setplays from Demonstration Toolkit that encapsulates in Docker containers
all tools you need to watch games and create setplays demonstrations. The
following links contain all information you need:
- The BahiaRT's Learning Setplays from Demonstration Toolkit -
https://bitbucket.org/bahiart3d/setplaysdataset/src/master/
- Setup instructions:
https://bitbucket.org/bahiart3d/setplaysdataset/src/master/README.md
- Usage instructions:
https://bitbucket.org/bahiart3d/setplaysdataset/src/master/USAGE.md
- Video tutorial: https://youtu.be/h_s8rA2IS88
At the end of this project, we will provide:
1- A public massive setplays dataset organized using our fuzzy clustering
strategy ready to be used for any soccer team (not only 3D simulation teams)
2- Source code of the dataset organizer and the deep reinforcement learning
engine used for teams training.
3- Results published (Ph.D. thesis and several papers).
You can see some earlier publications of this project at the end of this
message.
We appreciate your contribution. Anyone who enjoys soccer can contribute.
You do not need any experience with robot soccer or 3D Soccer Simulation. I
hope you have fun and send us several setplays demonstrations in the
following weeks.
If you have any doubts, please send a message to teambahiart(a)gmail.com.
Best,
Marco
Earlier Publications:
[1]M. A. C. Simões et al., “Generating a dataset for learning setplays from
demonstration”, SN Appl. Sci., vol. 3, nº 6, p. 608, jun. 2021, doi:
10.1007/s42452-021-04571-y.
[2]M. A. C. Simões, R. M. da Silva, e T. Nogueira, “A Dataset Schema for
Cooperative Learning from Demonstration in Multi-robot Systems”, J Intell
Robot Syst, vol. 99, nº 3–4, p. 589–608, set. 2020, doi:
10.1007/s10846-019-01123-w.
[3]M. A. C. Simoes et al., “Strategy Planner: Enhancements to support
better defense and pass strategies within an LfD approach”, in 2020 IEEE
International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
(ICARSC), Ponta Delgada, Portugal, abr. 2020, p. 46–52. doi:
10.1109/ICARSC49921.2020.9096188.
[4]M. A. C. Simões e T. Nogueira, “Towards setplays learning in a
multiagent robotic soccer team”, in 2018 latin american robotic symposium,
2018 brazilian symposium on robotics (SBR) and 2018 workshop on robotics in
education (WRE), nov. 2018, p. 277–282. doi:
10.1109/LARS/SBR/WRE.2018.00058.
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Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO -
http://www.acso.uneb.br
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE
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Call for Participation
RoboCup 2022 Soccer Simulation 3D League
July 11 – July 17, 2022 (Bangkok, Thailand)
https://2022.robocup.org/
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The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D Competition provides a great opportunity
to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for investing in robot
hardware. It facilitates experimenting using different learning and
optimization techniques by providing a simulated environment. Since the
games are played with teams of 11 players, the league is also a very good
environment for experimenting on multi-robot coordination methodologies.
We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2022 Soccer
Simulation League 3D competition, which will take place from July 11 – July
17, in Bangkok, Thailand. If you are interested in participating, please
register your team and follow the procedure as outlined below.
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Important Dates
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February 28, 2022 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission
Deadline
March 20, 2022: Qualified Teams Announcement
July 11 – 17 2022: Competition
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Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
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The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team fee
for the 2022 International RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major
leagues.
A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and all of whose team
members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup
competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any
waiver of fees for team members.
In addition, the 3D soccer simulation league will issue a certificate to
the best NEW team in the 3D competition.
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Pre-Registration
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No Pre-Registration required this year.
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Qualification
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Qualification is based on a team’s current performance, previous
achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions in relevant areas in
past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list, and development of the
simulator. Also, up to six slots will be assigned in priority to new teams.
In RoboCup 2022, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D Soccer
Simulation competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2021 (UT Austin
Villa, magmaOffenburg, Apollo3D) are automatically qualified after
submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP).
The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification process.
The qualification deadline is the 28th of February 2022.
Qualification material consists of:
1. Team Description Paper (TDP)
The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the
team.
It should clearly describe your own work and your contributions in addition
to explicitly specifying what you have used from others’ efforts
(including, but not limited to, any source code released by other teams or
their scientific work). In qualification, teams must be judged based on
their own work, so failing to acknowledge the work of others could result
in immediate disqualification. The length of the TDP must be at least four
(4) pages and should not exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS Style.
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>
Please submit the TDP only as a PDF document, with the name of your team in
the filename, i.e. Teamname_TDP.pdf .
2. A List of Publications and Achievements on previous RoboCup Symposia and
in other relevant international journals and conferences. Please do not
include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. Please also
include your team’s achievements in RoboCup and related events of previous
years. If you are new to the RoboCup 3D community, you may also include
references to relevant research done by your team that shows its potential.
Please submit the contribution list as a PDF document, with the name of
your team in the filename, i.e. Teamname_list.pdf .
3. Binary
All teams should submit a working binary of their team. The OC will use
these binaries to play 11 vs 11 matches, under the rules and with the
simulator used during the 2021 competitions
<https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-rules/>.
Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:
– Two scripts should be included: a startup script, called start.sh, to run
a full team of agents, and a kill script, called kill.sh, to fully kill all
agents of the team. The requirements and examples of these scripts can be
found on the rules page <https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-rules/>.
– All necessary external libraries should be included and be used locally
by the binary. The OC will not make an effort to install extra libraries on
the qualification systems. A Java runtime can be assumed to be available.
– The binaries should not create any output, be it through standard output
or to files and no graphical (debugging) interface should be used.
– The binary should be compiled for 64 bit systems and should work on a modern
GNU/Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu 18.04. You may also send 32-bit
binaries, but it is your responsibility to make sure that it runs correctly
on 64-bit distributions. You can assume that basic 32-bit libraries (e.g.
libc) are installed on the 64 bit OS. To summarize: the binary should run
out of the box on a standard, clean, headless system in a restricted
sandbox environment with the simulation server (possibly) running on a
different machine. The OC will not try to fix errors. When a binary fails
to run, the respective team will be notified and will have to resubmit
their material, before the deadline.
Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name,
create a tarball named teamname.tar.gz and upload it to the registration
form <https://forms.gle/2Yonrwyjjig9H3pi7>.
You should upload only one file including all your qualification materials.
If everything works fine, you will receive a confirmation. If you did not
receive any confirmation within two (2) days, please contact the Organizing
Committee <https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-committees#OC>.
If you encounter any problem sending your qualification materials please
don’t hesitate to contact the OC
<https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-committees#OC>.
Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in
this CfP. The following general qualification limitations will also be
considered:
– One-Third-Rule: The so-called One-Third-Rule rule states that only up to
1/3 of the participants in a competition may be from the same country.
– One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule: The One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule states that
only one team from each university or research institute is allowed to
participate in a competition. Note that it is okay for different teams from
the same institute to participate in different competitions, e.g. 2D and 3D
soccer.
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3D Soccer Simulation League Resources
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Important resources with more information on 3D Simulation League are:
– <https://archive.robocup.info/Soccer/Simulation/3D/>Tutorials for
Newcomers <https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/>
– RoboCup Competitions archive
<https://archive.robocup.info/Soccer/Simulation/3D/> (TDPs, binaries, logs,
and replays)
– Watch the 2021 Final in your browser!!!
<https://archive.robocup.info/Soccer/Simulation/3D/replays/RoboCup/2021/Elim…>
– 3D Main Simulator <https://gitlab.com/robocup-sim/SimSpark/-/releases>
– Prebuilt binaries from OpenSUSE build service for openSUSE and Ubuntu
<https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=science%3ASimSpark&pac…>
– 3D Viewer <https://github.com/magmaOffenburg/RoboViz>
– 3D agent source code releases
<https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/#basecodes> (includes
several champion teams)
(These source codes include Omni-directional walks, getup behaviors, kick
motions, and interface to SimSpark/Gazebo simulator)
Best Regards,
RoboCup 2022 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee
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Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO -
http://www.acso.uneb.br
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE
Dear RoboCuppers,
The Humanoid League would like to invite you at the second day of games of the HL-Virtual Season.
Teams are competing in a virtual tournament that will go every two weeks from Dec 19th to May 1st. Second day of games will be streamed on Sunday Jan 9th at 10am (CET time) on https://www.twitch.tv/robocuphumanoidfielda
Full game schedule and more info are available on our website -> humanoid.robocup.org
For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy
Kind regards,
Alessandra
Dr. Alessandra Rossi
Research Fellow
PRISCA research lab
University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Visiting Researcher
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Adaptive Systems Research Group
University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom